Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. Classical liberals distrust the government. Progressive liberals distrust their fellow man.
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  2. You have common sense. Our supposed leaders do not.
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  3. Actually, the term "right" is kind of a misnomer. Yeah, there are certainly some conservatives who want us to live by Bronze-Age rules because their Bronze-Age books tells them it's God's Plan. But all the stuff we're talking about: free speech, the 2nd Amendment, and mistrust of state power? Those are what the original liberal were all about. What latterday "liberalism" represents is nothing less than rigid conformity and serfdom. If things keep going the way they've been going, it wouldn't be long before the closet aristocrats embedded in government pass on their jobs to their kids, and tell us that's what God wants us to do. We already see this in how celebs and politicians lie, cheat and bribe their kids' way into the most prestigious schools. These young mediocrities are being groomed for high office, NOT through any merit of their own, but because they build networks with other mediocrities, through family and school connections. How do you think Al Gore became a Senator and then a Vice President? It wasn't because he was any good at anything or some kind of saint. It was because of his daddy, who was a senator before him. May's well call it primogeniture. First-born son gets his daddy's gig. Lord, King, whatever. Same with the Bush brothers.
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  4. @Doll Faced Beauty If somebody wanted to do you dirty, it's pretty easy to get your DNA.
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  5. Thank you for Adam Smith. Why is Scotland so socialist, now?
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  6.  @jennifers8843  Because it aligns with the values and political beliefs of most of the government. You can be conspiratorial about it or just chalk it up to human nature. I'm kind of mixed. I think there are a lot of useful idiots and probably a few dedicated Marxists who infiltrated the academy and nudge things in their direction. Yeah, I've listened to Yuri Bezmanov, and yeah, I do believe that was the Soviets' plan to undermine us. I just don't think the Russians are behind it, even if its initial impetus was from the KGB. Frankfurt intellectuals also played their role. Anyway, this stuff doesn't have much power, once people see it for what it is, and that's happening, conspiracy theory or not. Yeah, COVID dealt us a gut punch, and we're on the brink of high inflation times. But we're not starving peasants at the end of our rope after centuries of deprivation. We're also armed. So I think we're going to see the pendulum swing at Peak Woke. We may even be past Peak Woke, unless - and this is possible - the Algorithm's feeding my confirmation bias.
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  7. Wrong, Mills. You mistook the principal's remarks for Paul's, because you rushed to make your comments, which you do far too often.
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  8. @John Linares Good luck finding anybody who's in this country, legally, who doesn't have a picture ID, regardless of color.
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  9. Heidi is used to preaching to the (left) choir. She, like many on the left, is used to being cheered by people who share her echo chamber.
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  10. What Hamas - a creation of Israel injected into Palestine - did was terrible. But if what they did was terror, what do you call what Israel has done to Gaza? In the American West, you had a similar ongoing conflict between ethnic groups. It, too, was very lopsided in favor of one side. What's downplayed/ignored is that the massacres and atrocities on both sides were committed by a very small number of renegades by enraged people (on both sides) lashing out in fear or retribution or both. Your focus on the latest act of terror doesn't blind me to the fact that if you want to count dead children, Israel has killed more children in the last few weeks than Russia has in a full-scale conflict in Ukraine in almost 2 years. Let's not gloss over the open-air prison the Israelis are operating or forget there is such unbridled antipathy for Israel, Europe, and the USA in the Middle East. The USA picked up right where the British left off re-drawing the map of the Middle East by force. But even the British didn't carve out an entire nation for the Jews and force hundreds of thousands, if not millions, out of their homes and off their land. The ongoing situation in Gaza is intolerable. The treatment of Palestinians is inexcusable. I get that Israel is in a non-stop battle for survival, surrounded by hostile nations. But you have to ask yourself "Why is that?" Maybe it's because the USA under the UK's guidance, made a whole country out of thin air, called it "Israel," and evicted and oppressed the locals. Under that logic, we should evict all European and African-descended Americans from America! How do you think they would react if someone came along and said "For the greater good, you must give up your home and your homeland," and used force to bring it about? You're worried about 10 hostages, but don't mention 1200 Palestinian children killed. I guess it's OK to drop bombs on people, but if their feeble-best response is to chop off a few heads and seize 10 hostages, then that's terrorism? It's terrorism if you don't have advanced military hardware and bombers? You need to see this as - as Dave Chapelle called it - asymmetric warfare. There's a war being waged on these people and it's been ongoing for a very long time. I'm not justifying hostage taking, but I see it as the consequence of way worse that's been going for a very long time. This is just ONE atrocity you can point to, and there's no denying it's an atrocity, but don't let your confirmation bias blind you to the big picture or the MANY atrocities committed by the side you happen to support.
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  11. Yes. We are perceiving the crime with our eyes.
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  12. Pretty much. The chaos in the cities will result in people wanting order, and they will vote for all kinds of future federal over-reach and surveillance. Federal troops and a whole new separate department for domestic policing that defies Posse Comitatus.
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  13. I'll just take on two of your earlier ones. Epstein's making the point about atomic energy that we really aren't rational in our objections to and illogical regulations of atomic power plants. You can build the courthouse out of granite, but you can't build a nuclear power plant out of granite, because granite's too radioactive. But because we're "used" to coal and oil, we accept risks attached to them that are far greater than the risks people are willing to take in nuclear power. Those miles of coal piles emit more radiation, and burned by the ton, more radioactive particulates into the air we breathe than we ever experience from nuclear power plants. People just really don't understand the insane risks they already take, without batting an eye, but have what turns out to be an irrational fear of what is possibly the cleanest form of energy of all, just because we're afraid of radiation.
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  14. Kukaks.
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  15. Would that "liberals" didn't project their self-hate and hatred of others onto everyone else.
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  16. Easy. Cut your cable. Don't watch them. The 1st Amendment isn't about an obligation to report things fairly. It's about having the right to put your spin on things, and nobody can stop you. I think it's all fine. I can see one day ABC, NBC and CBS being rolled up into one. They're all going for the same exact demographic and political persuasion, preferably on the not-too-clever side. People who're hip ain't watchin' those networks, except for live sports coverage, like live NFL. But even the NFL is now being consumed asynchronously. $100 a year and the NFL sells you every game, back to 2009. Any time AFTER the game is played, you can go in and watch it, commercial-free. If you can wait 'til Tuesday, it's cut up a little better. Plus the geeks get the All-22.
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  17. You got it slightly backwards. They pretend they're offended, because they want to tear somebody or something down.
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  18. But the technocracy relies on technologies that make holding a people captive well nigh impossible. They would have to drag us back into a pre-technology dark age for the same old control systems to work, once more. There are historical forces in the direction of decentralization that I think are inevitable. We'll still have a small number of centralized things, like roads, rails, and Internet. But the way we use all of that stuff will be more about the local/regional people. They made - and are making - the case for centralized controls. People are rebelling against this "sneak preview" of the dystopia the Democrats have in mind. And the Democrats can't HELP themselves. If they take the WH and Congress, things will get worse before they get better, but the blowback will just keep getting bigger and bigger. But we'll see.
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  19. They won't own up to their hypocrisy, though. They'll just forget or try to make everybody else forget what they were saying a year or two or five or ten before, and act like they were always for strong borders.
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  20. Grimm Tale: What's ironic, to me, is that the left in this country, when you get done adding up all the things they think government should do, actually argue FOR the fascist system they rail AGAINST. For instance, Otto Von Bismarck thought free medical care was a GREAT way to keep the ruling class relevant to a population that was evolving AWAY from subservience to the ruling classes. Can't name a single liberal who doesn't really want single payer, and can find nothing wrong with it, even though it's a cornerstone of original Nazism!
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  21. uhh. "pawns."
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  22. Jesus spoke in parables.
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  23. Carter gave Begin and Sadat that buck-toothed grin and peace ensued between Egypt and Israel that has stood for almost half a century. That's not to be taken lightly. Even Carter's most virulent opponents never questioned the man's integrity. Disagree with him 'til the cows come home, but could't not like the guy.
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  24.  @Undomaranel  We used to be a nation of educated peasants, and very casual about a LOT of things the aristocracy disapproved. That was one of the cool things about the USA. Go to the opera and there're top hats and tails sitting side by side with farmers in homespun. The "crude banter" is definitely a "commoner" behavior, and it offends the dogmatically religious as well as the would-be aristocrats (the exact same kinds of people, BTW).
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  25. If Trump's calling DeSantis the "lockdown governor," then he just lost his chance for my vote. Trump played politics to get re-elected. DeSantis stood up to the establishment to do the right thing. Not sure I even like DeSantis, but Trump has shown no indication that he learned anything from his mistakes or even MADE any mistakes.
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  26. I wish these kids' idealism were wed with more understanding of the world. Kudos to Dave for giving them a voice. It reveals their shallow thinking. The one gal's pretty sophisticated in a particular form of argument - a dialectic - but she ran up against a couple logical inconsistencies regarding free speech. She's actually very assaultive in her use of free speech. Made her stumble, just by letting her rant a little bit, 'til the question of her disruptiveness became a matter of HER rights, when she came right out and said she had every right to offend people. LOL! Heh. These kids should want a more de-centralized system, so they could all move to the same place and live their right way, without interference, enforcing their mores, locally. Can't be happy with that. Gotta make everybody else do as they say. Prohibitionist zeal.
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  27. And the society-destroying "response."
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  28. My first big exposure to Alex Jones, he was ranting about child molestation rings and conspiracies in the highest circles. Crazy. Now, January, 2018, guess what?
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  29. The ancients came up with all kinds of mythological explanations for things. "You have a dragon in your belly!" And the treatment for "dragon in the belly" was some herb, and that herb - it was said - would calm the angry dragon. Of course it wasn't a dragon in the belly. But the herb cured the stomach ailment, and the dragon myth became "science." I think Peterson's trying to get at how we humans have (psychological) archetypes that seem to be hard-wired into our brains from birth. Universality of red = blood, light = wisdom, for instance (pulling these outta my ass, here). Actual scholars can tell you the common threads found between all religions. Religions grapple with unanswerable (by science) questions about life, death, and meaning. None of them are perfect. All of them address a deep need in the human psyche for meaning. True or false, it doesn't matter, IF THEY WORK. And even if they. DON'T work, people will eagerly embrace belief systems (faiths) that resonate with them. Now put all this into a hopper and turn the time crank millions of years, from pre-human, to the first self-aware human, on to today. We in the West think in terms of Christianity, which derives from Judaism, which derives at least party from the Egyptians, which derives from archetypes apparently hard-wired in humans since pre-historic times. What we're coming to find out is that it's irrational to hold religious convictions. It's also irrational NOT to hold religious convictions! And it turns out that the ABSENCE of any over-arching meaning for life is a sure path to extinction. That's why atheism is irrational. Without the mystical, society's not stable enough for scientific advancement. Scientific advancement exposes all the holes in religious doctrine. Rejecting religion leads to extinction, because religion fills a psychological need in self-aware, MORTAL beings. Without the religion, humanity stagnates. WITH religion (or its political-ideology substitutes), we devolve into hedonism, nihilism, and totalitarianism, replacing God and Morality with Government and Law. I don't think Peterson is offering any kind of final answers to these phenomena. He's just pointing them out, and he has some PRACTICAL ways of coping that seem to help people live better lives. Life is suffering. Life is uncertain. Life is TEMPORARY. How do we resolve these facts of life in such a way as to keep life on the up-tick, without descending into chaos? Without harming others or imposing our will on others by force? That's kind of the role of religion. Finding things that WORK over long time periods, spanning many generations of finite-lived human beings? My PERSONAL solution is to be scientific, with an overlay of "God is watching" and "Jesus loves me" from my early upbringing. It's superstitious. It's silly. But it helps ME interpret the world around me using reason to judge what IS and LOVE to set the goalposts. Over time, I try to work towards what SHOULD be, by understanding what IS.
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  30. They didn't quarantine AIDs patients or shut down the gay bath houses, which were know super-spreader centers, even though at the time everyone thought it was 100% fatal They quarantined the HEALTHY during COVID-19. Same guy in charge: Anthony Fauci. ALL OF THIS IS POLITICAL. SCIENCE WENT OUT THE WINDOW THE INSTANT IT LOOKED LIKE IT MIGHT HURT CHINA'S REPUTATION.
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  31.  @TheAirSchool  I think Fauci's all about theater. I also think Paul's over the target, and one of very few individuals who has the balls to ask Fauci the tough questions. I think his air of confidence is calculated. I think his indignation is manufactured. I think he's scared to death that people will find just how close his ties are to the outbreak. Very revealing email from Fauci in late 2019: "Did we do this?" He knows full well that this is EXACTLY the kind of thing he's been working on and funding for YEARS. Fauci's 100% political hack. He had the same job when AIDs hit. At the time, it was believed to be 100% fatal, and 100% transmitted by body fluids, and gay bathhouses in cities like San Francisco were super-spreader locations. The response then? "You're a homophobe if you close the bathhouses!" The response now? "Quarantine EVERYbody!"
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  32. I noticed that the people at work who get the annual flu vaccine miss a lot more time sick than I do.
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  33. ... and politicians who have more power than the people they're supposed to serve.
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  34.  @mattobermiller5041  You're both missing the point, which is just because it's bad doesn't mean laws against it make things better. In the end, it's a person's decision not to go that route. Meth and fentanyl are bound to go through the roof in one place where it's suddenly legalized where it's illegal everywhere else, because druggies will flock there, and actively recruit others to support their habit. But maybe you underestimate the extent of the problem before it was legalized or decriminalized. Maybe it just got easier to see and measure, because people aren't trying to hide it, any more. Hold people strictly accountable for their actions, whatEVER they put into their bloodstream! Instead of chasing drug dealers and making bad people rich and the police more militarized, and feeding the cycle of pain, we should look for ways to break that cycle. Maybe we should try to learn from Portugal's example. A "staunch Libertarian" should only want to enforce laws protecting persons and property. It's foolhardy to pass laws protecting people from themselves. Poverty programs and the war on drugs are a very toxic brew that isn't eliminated by doing what we've been doing. You're basically making Carrie Nation's argument for the Prohibition of Alcohol.
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  35. This guy's half smart. Not all bad. Could be reasoned with.
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  36. Adult vs Agitator and Activist. An adult is too busy working to make their corner of the world a better place to waste time on activism or agitation. An adult does the math, helps one or two people, and contributes to charities, in the sure knowledge that if everyone did the same, nobody'd be wasting time agitating or protesting or petitioning government, because they'd be too busy making tomorrow a better day, right where they're at. Don't protest for Med-4-All. Hold a barn dance and a raffle to pay for a new x-ray machine or a couple more beds at the local hospital. People SENSE that the local medical care is a community - i.e., communal - thing. But if you can't make it work at the local level, there's no way the feds, who are operating at about 30 cents on the dollar efficiency, aren't going to fix it for everybody. You want to be active? Start fund-raisers for your local/neighborhood/community clinic, so medical care for everybody in your vicinity is a little better than it otherwise would be. Take pride in that as a community. There's big status in being the rich guy who made a big contribution to the hospital. Local hospitals should have huge endowments, if people REALLY cared about their health care. It's just easier to virtue signal and complain when you don't get everything you want from somebody else. What's the health care industry getting from YOU, without being forced to it? Before Johnson's Great Society, places like Harlem were pretty classy, and on the way up. And they were doing it the RIGHT way. Harlem had some very good schools in the 1950s and '60s. Harlem was like a charter school, by today's standards, and one of the better school districts in New York City. Before and immediately after the REAL fight was won, for equal treatment under the law. "Leave us be, and we'll do just fine." Dems lost that civil rights battle and immediately built a federal plantation. Normal people of ALL colors are getting tired of the new racists calling themselves anti-racists. WORKERS of all colors are increasingly far-removed from what you college kids believe, and no wonder, when you look at the one-party capture of the academy. Boasting about one's degrees and IQs is like announcing to the world you probably need help tying your shoes. I'm sorry, but that means cleaning your room, fixing good food, working on projects, including yourself. Like that stone wall for the raised beds.
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  37. One of the telltales of cultism. It's rampant in legacy media. Facts don't matter.
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  38.  @jennifers8843  We'll see. I think we're at the stage of rejecting our feckless leaders. I don't think we're at the point of rejecting our bedrock ideals. On the down side, too many of us look to government to protect us from our own stupidity, and stupidity is on the rise.
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  39.  @evorider3689  He got everything wrong, and went along with the crowd at the crucial moment. I have zero respect for him. He is part of the problem. Now he's just trying to ingratiate himself, when he should retire from the public eye in shame.
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  40.  @MrClassicmetal  She doesn't have to understand to relay the literal words.
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  41. You need to go a lot farther back than that.
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  42. It works really well in the current era. The main reason for RussiaGate was so that nobody would investigate the Obama admin's many crimes and miscalculations. The biggest crimes were the cover-ups for miscalculations. CIA and FBI are notorious for the kind of gaslighting of which you speak. All government agencies, from the local sheriff's office to the State Department of the USA have this temptation built into them, which is why the Founders envisioned LIMITED government. You CAN'T eliminate corruption, but you can keep it on a strict diet! The less the government does, the fewer the opportunities for abuse of power. That's why people calling for government-paid schools and health care are either insane or ignorant of history and human nature. It's bad enough we give the state the responsibility to defend the national soil, so we can have a society run according to what WE want, and not what some outsider would impose on us. Look how badly they screw THAT up! But at least if defense was ALL they did, we would stand a better chance of catching the worst of the waste, fraud, abuse and atrocities.
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  43. @Contented Man Actually, if you're conservative/libertarian and look for that kind of content, there are so many strong black voices layin' it down that conservatives, especially, don't judge blacks by their skin color. They know too many smart, thoughtful blacks who think more like THEM than ANY white liberal. On the "other side," you have a lot of white people who don't think at ALL like the people they claim to champion. To THEM, blacks are lesser and other, which is the ONLY justification for treating them differently in any way, shape or form! But I see Eric D July, or Barricade Garage guy, ABL, or Jericho Green as guys who are more like me on the big picture, more like my brothers, than any white liberal. There IS a form of "privileged white" pushing the "white privilege" narrative. But it all comes down to thinking blacks need whites to SAVE them, when in OUR society, they mainly need whites to STOP trying to save them and leave them the hell alone! In their "good intention," they set up a system of incentives that couldn't do more to destroy the family, punish good people trying to help themselves through their own works, and put a drug dealer on every corner eager to recruit their 10-year-old son to gangster life in precisely the communities that white liberals "help" the most, if it had been planned! But nobody talks about how the Jim-Crow through 1st Civil-Rights-Act period saw REMARKABLE advances in the black community. Harlem was a Great Place, with Good Schools. HBCUs were taking off, ALL without any government help and quite a few disadvantages. It wasn't until the welfare state kicked in that we went from "guarantee my rights!" to "You owe me a living!" This entitlement attitude captured more whites than blacks, but basically the same percentage of poor in both populations. There were just a higher percentage of blacks that were still poor at the end of the '60s. Add to that the fact that in a lot of those communities, whites and blacks intermingled, but the mixed-race ALWAYS goes in the "black" bucket, which is crazy, so things are skewed that way, too. Everyone should read "Losing Ground." You can see the economic convergence of blacks and whites throughout the postwar period, UNTIL Lyndon Johnson. Then things changed. The gap between whites and blacks started growing again. Some of this is mirrors, because there was generally more cross-breeding in the inner-city communities that are hardest hit by poverty, so it all gets counted as "black," even though it's mixed.
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  44.  @videosonyoutube5588  Yes. When facts conflict with faith, facts must give way. "We believe in truth over facts." - Joe Biden
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  45. I bet you are against anti-Asian violence, especially against Chinese-Americans.
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  46. Delta Airlines, where you can't fly without a picture ID. Is Delta saying Delta is racist?
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  47. The elephant in the room is the history of Europeans and especially the British Empire re-drawing the map to please themselves and then getting the usa to do it for them, and keep the resources coming from underdeveloped countries in such a way that they never develop on their own. I don't care how much we love our Judeo-Christian heritage or Christ, Himself. Who were we to create a nation-state from scratch against the will of the people living there? How many OTHER nations have perished over the millennia? Why does Israel get a do-over, enforced by, exploited by and exploiting overwhelming force from lands far away? What the Nazis did ini the first half of the 1940s doesn't justify what we did in the 2nd half, nor what we've been doing, since, to maintain a (mostly) soft hegemony around the world, except when we decide to "go hot" and wreak destruction around the world. Hamas are renegade. We made them renegade, or at the least had a hand in the pathology we see manifest in ungovernable Palestine. Megyn sounds neocon on this issue. It's a knee-jerk reaction in American politics. Nobody asks "What right did we have to carve out a re-born nation by force in the region?" Go back a little farther in your history, Megyn. This is an ethnic/territorial dispute that's gone on for millennia. What business is it of ours?
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  48. If you're pulling the weight of others and nobody's noticing you or promoting you for doing so, then do your damnedest to find a different place to work. A young person like yourself should look for a BUSINESS to run, so all that energy benefits YOU, instead of propping up a bunch of drones. You can get off the ground just by your own efforts. To grow that business, you have to get really good at finding good workers and rewarding them. That's the hardest part for one-man operations: delegating tasks to others. You've gotta find a way to scale what you're doing, unless you're satisfied just being a self-employed tradesman, which is also a pretty good gig, although you should always be on the lookout for a good apprentice or two.
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  49. They're not losing money. The decision-makers get their cut and their cut comes off the top and is virtually guaranteed the instant financing for the production is secured.
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  50. Not buying this argument.
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